Your mother is actually of old time so she is not actually aware of traditional methods used now days. Its quiet simple if your cloth get stains or if it shrink, culprit is none other than machine. Sorry mom at this time you are actually not wrong but even you are not right as the methods of laundry that you know are quiet outdated.
Some of the laundry tips by Bally Chohan are given below:
Try to have more detergents:
Now a day’s washing machines have sensors with the help of which they actually adjust the water level. Detergents should be used as per the load of clothes. If you ever try to use more detergent in case of less load then what? It would be quiet typical to remove their residues from cloth and your clothes seems to be quiet dull.
Get you dark clothes much darker with coffee:
Whether you believe or not coffee actually used as a die and if you add small amount of coffee to washer then your dark clothes get much darker. Restrict yourself of putting greater quantity as you are not actually preparing a tea in washer.
Use hair spray that may help to remove stains of ink:
Do you know hair spray is actually made from which material?? Its alcohol and with the help of alcohols you can easily get rid of ink stains.
Dry cleaning is actually dry??
In dry cleaning water is not taken into consideration but other that it actually uses some other materials like tetrahloroethene or perchloroethylene.